India’s Migrants Are Key to Restarting Modi’s Economy

Staring at its first recession in four decades, India faces a long hard slog to regain its former glory days of 8%-plus growth.

As it emerges from the world’s strictest stay-at-home rules, Asia’s third-largest economy finds local supply chains are broken, little demand for its goods in overseas markets and an escalation of a border dispute with its giant neighbor — China, which also happens to be the country’s second-largest trading partner.